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by zbuf 6y ago
Try to not think in terms of whole applications. Chrome already has threads/processes dedicated to executing untrusted JavaScript code. What seems to be lacking is providing developers with an easy and non-root mechanism to run these a
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by zbuf 6y ago
No, I believe that misses my original point. cgroups and namespaces are privileged mechanisms that only 'root' can use, and share UIDs and other scopes across them (UID namespaces are complex and a risk in themselves.) It's r
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by zbuf 6y ago
No, you're missing reading the whole post, specifically the last sentence. That's the one to quote me on. Your browser has the role of bringing in untrusted code, and running it. The browser code would 'fork' a UID to ru
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by zbuf 6y ago
I think we just stretched the 'unix' model in the wrong direction -- attempts to solve every problem, at every layer, all of the time. Trying to be everything to everyone never works out very well. It would have been better to pre
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by zbuf 6y ago
As we're here, can someone explain the difference between counting cards vs being actually good at the game of Blackjack? I've always assumed that the two are really the same thing. If you get good at the game then that implies yo
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by zbuf 6y ago
I'm using the C preprocessor as a preprocessor to JSON, also hilarious. But whoever thought a language with no comments was a good idea -- means I can actually write comments in JSON files.
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by zbuf 6y ago
We must be nearly at the point in the plot when somebody declares that df "never did work properly anyway" and rewrites it.
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by zbuf 7y ago
This is totally true, but I think it's the opposite approach that would have actually made a difference here. Saying "we know these ABIs won't be stable, either practically, or by design, so this is where the OS ends" T
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by zbuf 7y ago
I believe it's because at some point the operating systems (particularly Linux based ones) became semi-closed ecosystems of software, instead of a platform to run other people's software. Also became a 'singleton' mental
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by zbuf 7y ago
There's something ironic about the criticism of Facebook internally as a popularity contest, then making $500,000/year from advertising on your popular YouTube channel.
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by zbuf 7y ago
Yes, I feel Stripe has lost its edge with the new APIs. Interesting to hear 'demotivating' used as that's how I felt for a while. I needed many requests with Stripe support and could see the docs changing each time I returned
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by zbuf 7y ago
> Linode is protecting themself over their customer. Is there any business that would not do this, or would do the opposite?
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by zbuf 7y ago
Disappointed to find it renders to <canvas> and not a set of divs and spans... I'll bet no-one could make it do that.
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by zbuf 7y ago
Does anyone know what happened to xpool?
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by zbuf 7y ago
I come from an environment where we have a reasonable number of Linux workstations; approaching 2000 in the company I work for, and more in the wider field. > Being a UNIX replacement with a full X11 server and all the rest was what made
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by zbuf 7y ago
The answers given are the obvious one; that pre made content can be buffered heavily. But the internet can, at its core manage packet delivery within the delays required for real time communication. More precisely the issue is probably one
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by zbuf 7y ago
Let's start by getting seamless audio communication. It's too much focus on video, when deficient audio has a greater impact on rapport. Even an old school land line phone gives a more fluid conversation than modern video conferen
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by zbuf 8y ago
This assumes I care about a status code in isolation when, in fact, they are grouped or related. If selecting a status code, or if faced with one, I want to see that relationship. It's a fun project but it might be a bit over engineere
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by zbuf 8y ago
Nice idea! In case you haven't seen it, this site uses a similar concept: http://longbets.org/
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by zbuf 8y ago
Let's pause for a moment and agree it takes balls to name a server 'glockenspiel'. Most of the admins I work with would be unable to log in, due to inability to spell that. Perhaps this is part of the tamper-resistent strateg
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by zbuf 8y ago
For the Qt applications, try setting QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native. I did experience Qt applications pushing whole window-sized bitmaps until I discovered this. Now remote $DISPLAY works well again. It seems the functionality is there, just the
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by zbuf 8y ago
I heard that in a world based on the Wayland protocol, applications implement the window decorations. If so, I'm interested in how we can expect consistency; and eg. moving the window of an unresponsive application. This could well be
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by zbuf 8y ago
Yup, and this is the GPL working as intended. The store doesn't allow you to redistribute the software, you must get your software from Apple. Seems to be the right thing long-term, though it prevents you having that piece of GPL softw
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by zbuf 8y ago
I had a similar experience with a relative's Seagate NAS. Except the ext filesystem was unreadable because it used a different page size. Required some shenanigans in userland by thankfully I was able to recover the data. Seemed like a
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by zbuf 8y ago
It's ok, Linux distros are queueing up to meet them in the middle...
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by zbuf 8y ago
Then it also seems especially odd to do this on a paid-for G Suite account.
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by zbuf 8y ago
I have the same when logging in to my Google account provided by my employer. I don't have 2FA set up, so they have no prior knowledge of my phone number. I'd also like to understand how this is possibly useful? In my case I was t
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by zbuf 9y ago
Hi, thanks for mentioning us (here and elsewhere) Cleanfeed isn't actually a multi-ender, it was originally developed for live radio interviews. So it aims to give the best quality live and in that regard it's different to, eg. Ze
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by zbuf 9y ago
Forget relaxing! We can have some fun with this; The Young Punx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb9jQN5hdLY "Perhaps violence later"
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by zbuf 9y ago
It's both. When we started Firefox didn't have the level of functionality that we needed; it wasn't even possible to capture stereo audio, for example. Even today we're reliant on Chrome functionality that either isn&#x2

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